Posted by Beth Hull on April 8, 2011 · 2 Comments
Long, long, long ago, when I was a little munchkin, I loved to read books. Fast forward through the awkward middle school years, the dark teen angsty years, the wow-I-can-sleep-in-every-damn-day college years, and into the I-will-never-get-to-sleep-in-ever-again years of parenting. And I still love to read books. It isn’t always as easy to find the time, … Read more
Posted by Beth Hull on December 27, 2010 · 6 Comments
Instead of a book review, I have to do something festive. Okay, and this post was supposed to be for Christmas Eve, but I never got around to posting it. But really, if I’d posted it on Christmas Eve, I wouldn’t have known that the last one was actually true! And in the original version, … Read more
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Posted by Beth Hull on November 10, 2010 · 9 Comments
The clock is ticking and I’ve got six months left of my twenties. I want to do them right. The thing is, I feel like a kid most of the time. There’re all kinds of things I don’t know how to do or even handle, and so like the bibliophile I am I turned to … Read more
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Posted by Beth Hull on July 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment
I haven’t yet reviewed an entire series on this blog, but it’s slooooow going through my current (snooty-sounding) read, The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood, so I’m stepping back in time here. Last October, Louise Rennison published the last installment of her Georgia Nicolson series. The one with all the extremely weirdly … Read more
Posted by Beth Hull on May 24, 2010 · 2 Comments
In lieu of a book review, here are the authors and books matched up to the first sentences I posted on Friday. (Oh, and the parenthetical P notations indicate, where I remember, that the first sentence comes from a prologue, since I’ve been obsessed with prologues lately.) 1. We went to the moon to have … Read more
